How about loosing some weight lol.
p.grasswich aka "the queequeg"
― queequeg (peter grasswich), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 23:58 (twelve years ago) link
i'm afraid if i go below 5.7% based on my last dunk test that i'll "loose" consciousness
― u kin pon da per pet chuh wul mo shun (Hunt3r), Thursday, 8 March 2012 00:02 (twelve years ago) link
can we do +/- on road discs pls
+ consistent stopping in the wet+ more consistent (and less effort needed if hydro) to stop in general+ can now run carbon clinchers with impunity
- learn better braking technique and you won't 'run out' of brakes, lol. like has anyone else actually run out of brake? i haven't, and i'm no lightweight- no more radial lacing; spoke counts go up- increased complexity- having a rotor on one side can't be good for aero balance surely? + the calipers haning off one side of the frame too- frame, fork weight will go up in general due to reinforcement (don't really care about this, high-grade frames are crazy light as is)- slower wheel changes if racing- crash in a pack, get sliced up??- i struggle to see how the small rotors that the weight weenie and poser crowds will push for will be able to deal with the heat build-up after a few hard stops, which kinda negates the whole 'more consistent' argument surely. that or make massive rotors.
― arnott's shjapes (haitch), Thursday, 8 March 2012 00:29 (twelve years ago) link
maybe new dura-ace will be like XTR, but rather than 'race' and 'trail' we'll see 'pro' and 'MANIL' variants
― arnott's shjapes (haitch), Thursday, 8 March 2012 00:30 (twelve years ago) link
+ keep riding on a dinged rim a bit easier
― arnott's shjapes (haitch), Thursday, 8 March 2012 00:48 (twelve years ago) link
+moves weight to hub+no more radial spokes (looks better)+glue doesn't melt on tubulars +hydraulic means more convoluted cable routings possible (does't have to be disc really)
~yeah its asymmetric but so is everything else these days
-I've never ridden with anyone with discs who didn't have noisy brakes-is a bent rotor better than an bent rim? I can flip the callipers open on a bent rim and get home -As Pash says there is annoying number of different pad types-doesn't look proper
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 8 March 2012 02:14 (twelve years ago) link
for racing, how consistent are wheel swaps? i always hated digging in neutral wi/wo truck to make sure i was getting the right number/spacing of cogs. so now you would also have to make sure you get the right rotor standard?
― u kin pon da per pet chuh wul mo shun (Hunt3r), Thursday, 8 March 2012 12:56 (twelve years ago) link
FYI Ed - in Evans on Mortimer Street there is a yellow-with-black-details BMC roadie on special. Handily I didn't see the make but it's down to £1299.
― Mark C, Monday, 26 March 2012 09:25 (twelve years ago) link
Fancy one of last year's Team sky Pinarello?
http://www.goinggoingbike.com/auction/store/Team_Sky_2011_Race_Bikes
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 12 April 2012 12:49 (twelve years ago) link
http://cdn.cannondale.com/catalog/product/cache/3/small_image/725x/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/c/_/c_12_2rse0d_liq.png
Nibali is making me fall for the Cannodale Super Six Evo
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 22 April 2012 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
it's probably the orange details but I saw this ridden by a continental team on the 4 days of Dunkirk and quite like it:
http://www.leftfieldbikes.com/wp-content/uploads/ktm_revelator_prime_carbonmatt_og-1024x644.jpg
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 7 May 2012 23:44 (twelve years ago) link
that is A+
sidi should make a pair of dayglo orange ergos to match!
― what I talk about when I talk about Runrig (haitch), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 00:03 (twelve years ago) link
teh strip is great, but otherwise looks straight chicarb. it is...the REVELATOR!
― a single goddamn marshmallow fucked me for LIFE (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 02:17 (twelve years ago) link
next time they should take some of the design language (lol) from this:
http://www.webwombat.com.au/motoring/images/ktm-x-bow-2-big.jpg
― what I talk about when I talk about Runrig (haitch), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 03:16 (twelve years ago) link
Peter Sagan is not making not buying a Supersix evo any easier. I'm fairly satisfied its the prettiest bike you can buy right now.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 23:34 (twelve years ago) link
a guy i ride with has the liquigas one - it is a looker for sure. weirdly, he's had it like three months and he's talking about a dogma 2 now - clearly more disposable income than i have to play with. (i'm trying to steer him towards a cx bike, heh.)
― bull pillman (haitch), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 02:32 (twelve years ago) link
My mate has just bought a Dogma 2 (he had a Prince before) and he is head over heels for it. His PBs have shot up and he's deeply in love.
― Mark C, Thursday, 17 May 2012 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
Get yourself one of Jimmy Saville's old bikes.
http://www.dnfa.com/search.asp?view=keyword&keyword=cycle&noperpage=20&orderby=relevance&cat=future
I can't help thinking those guide prices are ridiculously low, the vintage campagnolo alone on some of them is worth more than that.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 14:02 (twelve years ago) link
http://brimages.bikeboardmedia.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/2013-Colnago-World-Cup-disc-brake-cyclocross-bike.jpg
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 6 July 2012 19:55 (twelve years ago) link
http://brimages.bikeboardmedia.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/2013-caonondale-supersix-evo-black-600x377.jpg
feel like the other evos have CANNONDALE on them a bit much so this works for me. could do with a touch more colour tho, maybe!
― peter van shetegem (haitch), Sunday, 8 July 2012 03:32 (twelve years ago) link
This is pretty and at £3200 for titanium, Di2 and Carbon wheels seems like somewhat of a bargain.
http://road.cc/sites/default/files/imagecache/lightbox-large/images/Van%20Nicholas%20Aquilo%202012/Van%20Nicholas%20Aquilo%20-%20full%20bike.jpg
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 8 July 2012 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
best bro just got a pinarello dogma w/ chorus. i've yet to see it in person, but totally lustworthy afaict.
i have resolved (in my head) to beat him to snowbird by one minute for $1000 extra his bike is worth. /shittalking /classenvy
― for the sake of future hipstorians (Hunt3r), Monday, 30 July 2012 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
Spanish guy on the coffee shop ride last week had a movistar replica Dogma last week. I beat him up all the hills including the one I punctured on.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 30 July 2012 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
Talkin of Lustworthery bikes Genesis bikes is sponsoring a UK based continental team next yera and they are going to be riding a Reynolds 953 steel frame that promises to flirt with the UCI weight limit and probably be very lustworthy. I can't wait for that to come out.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 30 July 2012 15:30 (twelve years ago) link
yes very keen to see that. like the cinelli xcr from waaaaaaay upthread perhaps. wonder what unique touches it'll have; 44mm headtube like their steel MTB frames maybe?
hunt3r you should drop him and then make lots of 'chinarello' remarks.
― schnitzel ebb (haitch), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 05:11 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i sorta picked up on something about that chinarello ish in forum lands, but i don't know what it's really about? was it some sorta knockoff bikes, or just pinarello moving production to asia?
― for the sake of future hipstorians (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
knockoff frames - here's a good primer. lots of them seem like they're made from the mould for the old prince, some with 'dogma' stickers and some unbranded; newer ones look properly like the dogma.
notorious for these scary pix of one that snapped at the fork crown mid-ride... revealing fork legs filled with chi newspaper! i think there's lots out there now, though, and they can't all be failing. sorta curious how they ride tbh. tho i'd tend towards sticking with a well-known brand for warranty claims and the like.
― schnitzel ebb (haitch), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
Did we put the scary pics of the fake Specialized up here anywhere, head tube ripped the main tubes
xposts
what details there are are here
http://road.cc/content/news/62492-genesis-bikes-reveal-volant-and-new-953-frame
O/S headtube seems to be go.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
some cool stuff at eurobike without being game-changing. lol @ 'road disc' not really getting off the ground for the third year in a row, though, despite the fervent hopes of magazine editors and dudes on the internet. I would rock a salsa warbird, mind.
cinelli laser viva is quite beautiful - hate to think of the cost.
also the giro empire, aka the taylor phinney shoe, very on-trend silver (!) and neon yellow (!) laces (!!).
― cock and ball torch song (haitch), Friday, 31 August 2012 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
though most of the people in this thread won't care about it, but thompson's height-adjust seatpost looks amazing.
― how did we get here how? (ytth), Saturday, 1 September 2012 02:36 (twelve years ago) link
i really want a drop seatpost
― catbus otm (gbx), Saturday, 1 September 2012 02:55 (twelve years ago) link
the drop thing is covenient, but the pounding that many local trails have taken from hard dh style riding and high traffic has made them basically shit for non shuttle riders. just pushes the rest of us out into backcountry.
― backed by regular small people (Hunt3r), Saturday, 1 September 2012 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
at least you have actual mountains
― catbus otm (gbx), Saturday, 1 September 2012 18:57 (twelve years ago) link
i have a drop seatpost now, although it could use an upgrade (it's an earlier design that has some problems the newer designs have been correcting). it goes beyond just being convenient - in fact, i'd say that, aside from disc brakes, it's the best MTB upgrade i have ever made (and that includes suspension). it's the kind of thing you don't use until you have it - i used to adjust my seat once or twice during a ride, but with the height-adjust post, i probably move my seat 10-15 times, or more if there's a lot of rolling terrain.
― how did we get here how? (ytth), Sunday, 2 September 2012 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
i've been dreaming of a bike that has a dropseat as the focal point -- basically a fully rigid 29er (or KRAMPUS) with a carbon fork. maybe SS and with flat pedals, for shits. a rigid bike isn't nearly as much of a pain on the downhill if you dont ever sit down and don't have a dumb old seat jacking you in the crotch, esp if its really easy to wheelie over stuff (carbon fork!). obv this does not obtain in places with actual mountains, but for trail riding in the midwest? fuck. yes.
can we do that bike nerd thing where we spec out bikes? ok? ok.
S.S. KRAMPUS (<--- like a ship, not like a nazi. i'll admit that "SS" in even the general vicinity of a german word gives me the willies)singlespeeddrop seat (rock shox seems nice)hydraulic brakes (i know nothing about brakes)carbon fork (does that RDO niner clear huge tires??? that would be boss)white ind crankscanfield cramponschris king everythingthomson everythingergonzpdw takeout rack why because beer and snacks
this would be the most fun bike in the entire universe
― catbus otm (gbx), Sunday, 2 September 2012 22:16 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.bikerumor.com/2012/09/04/ergon-adds-leaf-spring-carbon-seatpost-wicked-carbon-barstemends-prototype-leather-grips/
would u rock one-piece ergon bar-stem-grips
― cock and ball torch song (haitch), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 02:08 (twelve years ago) link
have posted this elsewhere but who cares
http://i.imgur.com/AjAqF.jpg
KRAMPUS KRAMPUS KRAMPUS
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Monday, 24 September 2012 21:52 (twelve years ago) link
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8430/7674445292_00a74f2599_z.jpg
guessing the owner is a douche (why because hipsters) but it sure looks fine
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Thursday, 1 November 2012 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
those shifters would make it hard to reach the brakes from the hoods, right?
― hot slag (lukas), Thursday, 1 November 2012 19:34 (eleven years ago) link
apparently not, according to the reviews i've read (they are retroshift)
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Thursday, 1 November 2012 19:53 (eleven years ago) link
the only review I read din't think much of them as shifters.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 1 November 2012 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
thinkin baout those h+son aims for the cx bike
― thirstin' maw (haitch), Friday, 2 November 2012 02:49 (eleven years ago) link
RIMS
thinking about an alternate reality where i have space for a cx / touring bike
― hot slag (lukas), Friday, 2 November 2012 02:51 (eleven years ago) link
almost bought some h+son super deeps (45mm or so?) like 3 yrs ago, but they sucked, so i din't.
― too soon (Hunt3r), Friday, 2 November 2012 02:58 (eleven years ago) link
Liking this, maybe not in blue but it looks fast.
http://road.cc/sites/default/files/imagecache/node-gallery-display/images/Giant%20Propel%20Advanced%20SL/Propel%20Advanced%20SL%200%20(1).jpg
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 22:59 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.gelliecustombikeframes.com.au/Micks-XCR-Road.htm
this builder lives about 10 minutes' drive from my parents' place. lurve the stainless w/ etched logos look.
― scraping Doritos off the wheel (haitch), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 11:10 (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^by chance I saw this rig outside a coffee shop round my way last week. built up with, oooh, record 11 and some handbuilt alu rums iirc? SO bangin' compared to most of the crabon rigs it was sitting near.
― xxx heady xxx heady (haitch), Thursday, 24 January 2013 06:27 (eleven years ago) link
http://speedvagen.com/lookbook.pdf
luv these. the one with the logo laser-cut out of the headtube and the carbon sleeve bonded in!!
― super wild whore sez (haitch), Monday, 27 May 2013 06:06 (eleven years ago) link
that laser cut headtube is amazing. also... the wait for a vanilla is over 5 years?!?! handcrafted custom bikes are cool and all, but is vanilla doing anything so spectacular that it's worth waiting 5 years for one?
― eh mec, elle est ou ma caisse? (ytth), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 03:30 (eleven years ago) link
it seems a bit insane to me too, how long do you wanna wait for a townie bike?? I guess that stuff just takes time when you do it right. (note that he gets other framebuilders in to work on the speedvagens, whereas I think vanilla is just sacha himself.)
― super wild whore sez (haitch), Thursday, 30 May 2013 01:20 (eleven years ago) link